Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems?

henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i understand HIPAA. i don’t understand why we are still using the technology we started using in the 60s. my question is why haven’t we found a better way since then?

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  • droporain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can’t even stop junk snail mail or end daylight savings time. Good luck.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “modern” fax machine using telephone was invented in 1964 by Xerox, but technically the fax machine goes back to 1843. Bain patented the electric printing telegraph, which used pendulums and electric signals to scan images and send them over telegraph wires.

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  • stinerman@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plenty of people still use landlines. That tech is much older than faxes. Internal combustion engines have been around for about as long. There have been improvements, of course, but the basic idea of spark plugs igniting fuel, which pushes down a piston is quite old.

    Like many things the 1960s tech is “good enough” and the government hasn’t mandated a specific standard.

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• lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For non freedoomers:
  HIPPA = Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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